@sir67: "Greg Taylor learned what it means to be an ugly American last month.
Only he's not one.
Not ugly. Not American.
Taylor and his family are Canadian. They moved to Birmingham four years ago
when he transferred to work at the Honda plant. They've had a child here.
That's child No. 3 for the Taylor family, but U.S. citizen No. 1.
In June the Taylors drove to Alberta, Canada, to attend a funeral and have a
little vacation. It turned into what Taylor calls an "eye-opener."
Driving along the highway in Canada. a driver surprised them with a rude
hand gesture.
"He gave me the one-finger salute," Taylor said. "I wondered if I'd cut
somebody off."
But it happened again.
And again.
Then it dawned on Taylor. He was driving through Alberta with Alabama 
plates.
With American plates. He was perceived as American, and he was feeling a
kind of ill-will he'd never known.
That's not all. On June 22 Taylor's wife and children visited the West 
Edmonton
Mall.
 They had a good time, but were shocked on returning to the parking lot. 
Taylor
described it in a July
4 letter to the editor of the Edmonton Sun:
"My wife and family returned to our vehicle only to find a used condom
wedged in the driver's door handle of our vehicle and numerous spit marks
riddled the sides of the vehicle.
"Is this how Alberta treats all visitors from the U.S.?" his letter went on.
"If so, I am ashamed to call myself Canadian."
The episode is disturbing on several levels. As Americans, it's worrisome
that our closest friend and neighbor hates our policy so - a recent poll
showed 40 percent of Alberta teens see the U.S. as "evil." But that's not
Taylor's point. He is upset and embarrassed that his countrymen would take
that resentment and blame an innocent U.S. family. Any U.S. family.
Nobody in Alabama ever treated Taylor that way, he said. Not even those who
felt Canada hasn't pulled its weight in the war on terror.
It would be nice to think that's due to our hospitality or manners. But in
truth the same sort of behavior happens here often.
It just goes to show there are jerks in all cultures and countries. It's
fine to protest. But as Taylor says, you can agree or disagree with a
policy, but there's no excuse for treating innocent people with disrespect.
You might just find yourself screeching at the choir.
It's typicle slimebag Alberta."
    @firestone: "Why do you still beat your wife?
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You mean his goat."
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inconsistencies
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trust is inherently asymmetric
trust is also reciprocal"
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